How Art Works

By Ellen Winner

There is no end of talk and of wondering about "art" and "the arts." This book examines a number of questions about the arts (broadly defined to include all of the arts). Some of these questions co...

Gifted Children

By Ellen Winner, Winner, Ellen

Gifted Children - Children Years Ahead Of Their Peers - Have Long Inspired Fascination, Envy, Fear, And Rejection. Misconceptions About Children With Special Abilities Abound. In This Fascinating B...

Gifted Children: Myths And Realities

By Ellen Winner, Winner, Ellen

Gifted Children - Children Years Ahead Of Their Peers - Have Long Inspired Fascination, Envy, Fear, And Rejection. Misconceptions About Children With Special Abilities Abound. In This Fascinating B...

World Shaman: Encountering Ancient Himalayan Spirits In Our Time

By . Ellen, Ellen Winner, WINNER, Ellen Winner, Mohan Rai

Supporting three wives, twelve children, and assorted relatives, Mohan Rai is a thoroughly modern man, convinced he's escaped an outmoded duty to follow his father as shaman to his Bhutanese villag...

Invented Worlds: The Psychology Of The Arts

By Ellen Winner, Winner, Ellen

Cave paintings of our prehistoric ancestors, elaborate ritual dances of preliterate tribesmen, long lines at the movies, earnest scribbles of the three-year-old next doorevidence of human preoccupa...

Invented Worlds: The Psychology Of The Arts

By Ellen Winner, Winner, Ellen

Cave paintings of our prehistoric ancestors, elaborate ritual dances of preliterate tribesmen, long lines at the movies, earnest scribbles of the three-year-old next doorevidence of human preoccupa...

The Point Of Words: Childrens Understanding Of Metaphor And Irony

By Ellen Winner, Beatrice Blyth Whiting, Beatrice Blyth Whiting, Carolyn Pope Edwards, In Collaboration With Carol R. Ember ...

A small child looks at a dripping faucet and says that it is drooling." Another calls a centipede a "comb." An older child notices the mess in his younger brother's room and says, "Wow, it sure is...

Point Of Words: Children'S Understanding Of Metaphor And Irony

By Ellen Winner, Beatrice Blyth Whiting, Carolyn Pope Edwards, In Collaboration With Carol R. Ember ...

A small child looks at a dripping faucet and says that it is drooling." Another calls a centipede a "comb." An older child notices the mess in his younger brother's room and says, "Wow, it sure is...

Studio Thinking 2

By Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, Shirley Veenema, Kimberly M. Sheridan

'The first edition of this bestseller was featured inThe New York TimesandThe Boston Globefor its groundbreaking research on the positive effects of art education on student learning across the cur...

Developmental Perspectives On Metaphor: A Special Issue Of Metaphor And Symbolic Activity

By . Ellen, Ellen Winner, WINNER